Re: Socket Buffers and Memory Managment

2007-07-18 Thread vinay ravuri
invoked - Ofcourse this is assuming that their is a facility in linux socket buffers to be able to do destructors. Is this approach a viable, if so, are any gottcha's? -Vinay --- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:20:58 -0700 (PDT) > vin

Socket Buffers and Memory Managment

2007-07-17 Thread vinay ravuri
Hi, I am fairly new to linux socket buffers and have the following questions! I am working with a custom ethernet MAC that does not allow me to specify a particular memory location for the h/w to DMA the packet into (Rx side). Instead, it has a pool of fixed size buffers with some h/w specific h